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i enforcement of the Act is vested in the Director of the Ken-
tucky Agricultural Experiment Station.
; Z The law requires that the person responsible for the
  butter-fat test upon which the product is bought, shall have
`   sufficient knowledge of the subject to pass an examination; .
. { that he shall use only tested glassware and weights, and shall
  § use accurate scales, thermometer, water-bath and other equip-
‘   § ment necessary in making a correct reading; and that each
    and every place of business where milk and cream are so pur-
`     chased shall be licensed.
    The following is a report of work under this law for the
  i first six months, July 1 to December 31, 1918: Owing to the
    many details needing to be adjusted in the beginning, active
I   work was not begun until about September 1st, and the
_     inspection work was started the latter part of October.
    Licenses were issued to 41 creamery firms for the operation
i _     of 224 stations in the State. Testers’ examinations were held
    in Lexington, Louisville and Paducah, at which licenses were
    granted to 184 testers. In the glassware-testing laboratory,
  10,794 pieces of glassware and weights were tested, 9,869 of
L,     which were found to be correct and 929 incorrect, tl1e num-
V;     ber of incorrect pieces of glassware and weights becoming
Y j_* , 2   fewer as the requirements of the law were better understood.
_i r  _·l_. Two circulars were issued during this period, one containing
  the law and rules and regulations, and the other giving infor-
,1   mation on the Babcock test for butter—fat, and especially
 Z.  designed to aid beginners in this work.
Q2. iz;  It has been in the way of inspection that most defects
  have been found. Of the 111 cream stations inspected only
_;  8 were found to be complying with tl1e law in all respects.
___· if;  The principal deficiencies were tl1e use of untested weights
‘»g.-;¤&*i·Ei and glassware and the absence of thermometers and water-
  baths, without either of which the test will be more or less
    guesswork. All necessary instructions were given in each ~
  instance, and there is every reason to believe that a re-inspee-
 gs tion will find many improvements.
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